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Saturday, 22 March 2014

Brzezinski Mapped Out the Battle for Ukraine in 1997

Why would the United States run the risk of siding
with anti-Semitic, neo-Nazis in Ukraine?One of the keys may be found by looking back at Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1997
book, The Grand Chessboard in which he wrote, “Ukraine, a new and important
space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence
as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia
ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”

“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people
and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically
again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning
Europe and Asia.”

The former national security advisor to Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981 and
top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, Brzezinski wrote that US policy
should be “unapologetic” in perpetuating “America’s own dominant position for
at least a generation and preferably longer still.”

Brzezinski delved into the importance of little known Ukraine by explaining
in his 1997 book, “Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived
not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location…
which in some cases gives them a special role in either defining access to important
areas or in denying resources to a significant player.”

“Ukraine, Azerbaijan, South Korea, Turkey and Iran play the role of critically
important geopolitical pivots,” he wrote in The
Grand Chessboard, a book viewed by many as a blueprint for US world
domination.

Brzezinski wrote that Eurasia is “the chessboard on which the struggle for
global primacy continues to be played,” and that “it is imperative that no Eurasian
challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging
America.”

It may also help explain why in the past year the US and many of its media
outlets have feverishly demonized Vladimir Putin.

By prominently highlighting the mistreatment of activist group Pussy Riot,
incessantly condemning Russia’s regressive position on gay rights, and excessively
focusing on substandard accommodations at the Sochi Olympic Games, the Obama
administration has cleverly distracted the public from delving into US support
of the ultra-nationalist, neo-Nazi factions of the Ukrainian opposition, and
has made it palatable for Americans to accept the US narrative on Ukraine.

Interestingly enough, it was Brzezinski who first compared
Putin to Hitler in a March 3 Washington Post Editorial. Hillary
Clinton followed-up the next day with her comments comparing the two, followed
by John
McCain and Marco Rubio who on March 5 agreed with Clinton’s comments comparing
Putin and Hitler. Apparently Brzezinski still continues to influence US political
speak.

In his book, Brzezinski contends that “America stands supreme in the four decisive
domains of global power: militarily… economically… technologically… and culturally.”

While this may have been accurate in 1997, it can be argued that today, other
than militarily, the US no longer reigns supreme in these domains.

So late last year when Ukraine’s now-ousted president Viktor Yanukovych surprisingly
canceled plans for Ukrainian integration into the European Union in favor of
stronger ties with Russia, the US may have viewed Ukraine as slipping even further
out of its reach.

In today’s Ukraine, the US runs the risk of being affiliated with anti-Semitic
neo-Nazis, a prospect it probably feels can be controlled via a friendly western
media. But even if the risk is high, the US likely views it as necessary given
the geopolitical importance of Ukraine, as Brzezinski mapped out in 1997.

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